CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2298, 17 March 1898, Page 23

CASUALTIES.

At an inqur-sb heldat Auckland on In? b< .lj uf Henry John Hstrtnall, well known in commercial circles, the evidence showed that he had taken " Kough on rats." Ha left a letter to his wife stating that he intended to destroy himself. He was mentally depressed, having been out of employment. He was formerly with Nathan and Co. for years. He leaves a widow and nine children. The verdict was "That deceased took poison while temporally deranged." He was a brother to the Hon. William Hartnall, i&euibei-of the House of Assembly in Tasmania. The skeleton of a man bai been discovered at the sandhills near Port Waikato by a settler named John Neil. The sand had lifted and exposed the skeleton. From the appearance of the bones ib is conjectured that they have been tberefor more than 20 years. The only clothing found was a 6inglet. Twenty years ago a named John Wood was missed from Port Waikato, and a search party went out for <.-i?s in search of him, but wero uix&uccessf u! . II is possible tha remains may be those of Ino naisMng fisherman. J A sad shooting accident happened at Akati- ! rawa, near the Upper Hutt, on the 8"h. Two ' brothers, Frederick and William Lee, vrere j roistering cattle, when a bull turned on them. ' 3Vederick, aged 18, discharged hia gup, and t s,en climbed a tree and called to Jais brother to j-fload. While the latter was handing the weapon to his brother a branch caught the trigger, and the gun went off, the charge landing in Frederick's right side, death being almost inptantaneous. .ao accident occurred on tbe 7th to the coach j be-ween AUaroa and Little Kiver. Ib was i Oirosn by five horses, and when golr.g down tJie j hi'l from the sammib to the Libtle River the ! horses bolted. The coach struck a tdegrapb ] post, and the body of the ccach w-ia charged I through a post-and-rail fence, and was thro-vn 25fts down the Bide of the hill. There were JO passengers on board at the time. One man, jjamed Sciemi, was badly injured, bub the ntnera bad a marvellous escape, beyond a t overs shaking and the bnrses not being seriously hurt. Mr A. E. U. Rhodes, who, v, iih his wife, was on the box seat, was thrown <Jear 60fb down the bill. The man injured was brought; in to the hospital. Serious injuries were received by Mr Henry Gyies Turner, who is in a prectrious condition. Mr Turner has long beeu one of the foremost men in the (sacking world, and is fit pxesent chief manager t f the Commercial B-ink of Australia. Au illegitimate ehiid named Berht James Jrtpeph Aitken, aged four months, died on Monday, 7tb, at the residence of Mrs James Hill, of Parkeide, Caveraham, who was nursing ihv infant under the Infant Life Protection Acb \ of 1893. The child had been suffering from ! <ii&frroea for the last eight days and was being ' a'.ten&ed to by Dr Martin, who states that the S cl ild was properly cared for. In accordance •wicr. the set the caroler held an inquest on the b:dy on the 9feb, when a verdict of " Death from natural causes " was returned. Au illegitimate child named Roderick James Stewart was found dead in bed on the 9 f h inst. t The infant was' about three months of age, and had lived with its mother at filaori ' .Hill. ' Death is supposed to have been due to nptural cauaea. A 12-rromed house at Kimihia, near Huntly, Vufklar>d, was burned down at 3 p.m. on the 9'h. The building was the propsrty of the Sjmihia Caal Company, and the insurance ia nukuown. Mrs Martin, aged 64-, was 'burned ■ ■ ceath in the building. Ifc appears that the \<\ lady got out cf the bouse 'and went back -•i nsjyintDget out some furniture and was suii'oc.tecl. ! A micer names James Brand, 66 j ears or age, was found drowned in the Waikaia River on tha 10th insb. Mrs Pearce, an elderly woman, who was received into the hospital on the 31st January, ■with a broken leg, died in the institution on the lObh iasr. Death, however, ia believed to Lure been due to other c&uses than the accident-. James Mair, a very old resident and a merchant of many years' standing at 'i'apanui, died suddenly on the 10th inst. »t Mr John Howarbh's residence, Milrig. He taok & leading parb in all matters con- j with the welfare of the district. Ha I li.-d, however, beau in delicats health for socao { t.rr.e. A labourer named John Sfcorey, aged 78, was found dead in bis hut at Waifcahuna on Wednesday morning, 9th Death ia supposed to have been due to natural causes. "William Ederidge, a boy of about six years cf age, whose parents reride in King streei, was sdmitted into the hospital oti Fuday suffering frern a fracture of the It f c arm, which, wag bustiitied by falling off a ses-saw. A woman named Mary Barretb was admitbed into the hospital on Thursday suffering with a fracture of her right leg, caused by falling over a pic ca of wood while she was locking through a house iv Queen street. A man named Flanagan, o? Paeroa, Auckland, tK-isoned himself by eating match heaJs, owing, ib is sad, to family troubles. D" Buckley i him, snd administered aiv emetic, aud f utter a considerable time succeeded in relieving the sufferer. Robert Sargeant-, 60 years of age, employed by Mr F. Williams, Auckland, slipped in ■Wyndh&m streeb and fell under the feet of a Lorse, which Jashed out and struck him on the temple, and dragged the wheel of the cart j »«rpps his throat. Death was almosb instan- ' la'i-2ous. I As Mr J. A. M'Ginness, the St. Clair trainer, was riding home on his bicycle about 8 o'clock on Saturday night, in trying to get out of the ■* ay of a passing vehicle when turning into the IWcury road, his machine got jammed in the t-aai points, and he was thiowu heavily to the 4,rutiad. He was picked up in aa unconscious •"t>'e. 8.» i! remained bo till Sunday morning. O.i Monday, however, he appeared to b5 speedily lecoveriag.